This is a wonderful jacket I won on Ebay at the end of last year which belonged to Donald M Ollis. Don Ollis was a United States Air Force veteran of the Korean war. He served in the Air Force as a GI and civilian for over 39 years, spending his last 13 years on the Test Team & development of the A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft. He passed away in June 2025 aged 93. The seller had also purchased A-10 TF-34 engine manuals from his estate sale which I also bought as I had to keep it all together.   During my research, I found a few blogs that he had commented on which gave me further details on his role with the A-10.   ASSIGNED TO A-10 AT EDWARDS AFB in'74 as the APG AFETS . LEAD THE FO 410 TECH. DATA TEAM THRU EDWARDS,VERIFICATION PROGRAM, DAVIS MONTHAN AF & THEN TO MBAFB. VERY ACTIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE A-10 & THE ENGINE RUN PROGRAM. STILL PROUD OF THE TEST TEAM & BEING A PART OF IT . GREAT AIRPLANE. I RETIRED IN MB IN 1988.   Another post I found of his has a bit more detail of what he did:   I came to Myrtle Beach Air Force Base with the A-10 program in the Air Force’s Civil Service Air Force Engineering Technical Service (AFETS). I was the airplane general AFETS, or APG. I said APG stood for all-purpose genius. I started in A-10 as part of the test program at Edwards Air Force Base, then to the first training wing at Davis-Monthan in Tucson, Ariz. From there to Myrtle Beach Air Force Base and the first A-10 fighter wing. I joined other AFETS here – engine, electronic, instruments, weapons, navigation – and our job was to be maintenance advisors and training instructors to the AF technicians. I had a career of 39 years and three months, military and civilian, with the last 13 years at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. My memories of the Myrtle Beach area are tied to the students I had in some of the MTE Classes, such as the engine run program. It was also interesting to watch the maintenance and operations personnel contribute to development of the A-10 Warthog. I retired in 1988.   It's men like Don who made the A-10 such a great aircraft.  

Back in 1981, Fairchild were celebrating their 50th anniversary and held an event at their Farmingdale facility. I'd seen some of the merchandise on sale from time to time on ebay but had not been successful in winning anything. All I wanted was a coffee cup but ended up with six and a guidon flag.        

I'd like to think those vehicles were saved by collectors... but most were probably scrapped 😩   2 different Sherman BARV's too. I recall seeing one a few times at War & Peace, painted grey. Maybe it is in these pics 😶

I second that, Jeff. Is a straight shooter   Keith  

. I just found another Pounds yard in my photo files.     Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 14 April  2O26.   ..

Thanks for that. I had looked on ebay and tried to do a bit of research on it myself and things started to point to it being very rare. It's a mission for me to sell it being in NZ but i'd pack it up for a Collector. I suspect there would be someone wanting a Deadstock M-65 by this Contractor but i don't think ebays the way for me atm. It's real nice to own now i know more about it, better than a few hundred bucks. Thanks for the advice though.

Looks like a good place to metal detect. Unless it's forbidden. 

. More photographs of Pounds yard 1978   one of my Jeeping friends having seen the couple of photos I had posted of the Beach Armored Recovery Vehicle in Pounds scrap yard sent me a few more he had taken roughly around the same time, which I have added here.              Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, 14 April  2O26.   ..

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